Featured Gameplay Mode: The Zaun Minion Factory

(Note: This gameplay mode was inspired by Prime World's Dragonwald queue.)

It's a little-known fact that minions in League of Legends are not really minions at all, but rather constructs. Knowing this, they have to be created somewhere...and for the hundreds of minions dying in each match to be created, there must be a factory somewhere on Runeterra producing them en masse.

While this factory's existence was once unsubstantiated rumors, a high-ranking informant within the League has revealed that there are, in fact, multiple factories, with at least one granted to each major city-state in order to further ensure their cooperation with the league.

However, in a move to presumably improve their nation's standing within the League of Legends, Zaun has begun...corrupting their construction process. They are producing both minion and monster constructs, each with twists befitting the City-State.

The League has learned of this power play, and, rather than putting an outright stop to it have elected to make sport of the factory and allow summoners and champions to compete in the destruction and shutting down of the factory.

The Goal: Make your way to the center of the factory, leveling up along the way, and defeat the central boss. Once you have defeated the boss, escort it to destroy the Nexus on your opponent's side of the map. Careful though, as if your opponents manage to kill you AND the minion in your attempt, it will begin its march onto your side of the map!

The obstacles: Your team of champions all start off level 1, with a few entrances to the factory, populated by sentient caster minions gone mad, wraiths with Life Drain, and a gauntlet of other harrowing monsters and powered-up minions to help you level up on the way to the central boss.

The factory itself is a maze, chock full of traps and ambushes awaiting unsuspecting champions. Some of these monster groups can very much kill you if your team attempts to speed up the clear of the factory by splitting up into smaller groups, or if you attempt to lone wolf it yourself.

The boss: A Giant Purple Caster Minion. In an effort to display their city-state's genius mixed with a cruel twist of irony, the Zaun Minion Factory constructed blueprints to design the most terrible of all minions, the Purple Caster Titan.

TLDR: The game starts off as a PvE race to the center of a labyrinth. If you win the race, you have an uncontested battle to defeat the boss, which will then destroy the opponent's base for you, assuming it makes it there. If you tie or lose the race, you have to defeat the enemy team and THEN the boss in order to begin the process of their demise.

Most importantly: Taric can finally be the melee DPS that can also heal he was always intended to be.